poetry / shape / sound

poetry / shape / sound

be here; be poetry

DIORAMA is NYC's immersive poetry series of intimacy and vulnerability. A world where we dispose of the podium and stage, and interweave you in a space built of language, shape, and sound.

We believe in artistry. That poetry is an intimate art, bodily, and specific to its creator just as dance and singing are. We present evocative poetry from those who bring startling imagery and sensitivity to their sound.

We are the hull of a ship, inside, the floor of the forest at night, the act of revealing. We are poetry come to life.

Diorama: Missa Brevis

premiered October 2017 as part of Atlas Obscura's Into the Veil event in historic Green-Wood Cemetery, NYC

Diorama: Missa Brevis

premiered October 2017 as part of Atlas Obscura's Into the Veil event in historic Green-Wood Cemetery, NYC

Diorama: Missa Brevis is an immersive meditation on time, the fierceness of our mortality, and the power of transcendence. Written and performed by Diorama's founders, this piece offers its participants the opportunity to truly hear and let go.

(photos by Gary Kenney)

About

About

Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein

Artistic Director & CO-Founder

Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein is the author of Quiet, winner of The New School University Press contest; semifinalist for the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize for her book, Forniphilia; and her work can be found in Sporklet, Prick of the Spindle, Front Porch, and others. Hercollaborative novella with Lisa Marie Basile - Nympholepsy - was finalist for the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize and is forthcoming in 2018 from Inside the Castle.

Lisa Marie Basile

Associate Artistic Director & CO-Founder

Lisa Marie Basile is the editor-in-chief of Luna Luna Magazine and Ingenue X. She is the author of Apocryphal (Noctuary Press) and a few chapbooks, including Andalucia (Poetry Society of NY) and war/lock (Hyacinth Girl). She was a finalist for the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize, and you can find her work in The Atlas Review, Spork, PANK, Dusie, Huffington Post, the Tin House blog and Ampersand Review. She's also a journalist and editor.